Balancing Act between Services and Products A talk about why Pulp releases so damn frequently. Who am I? Pulp developer (really almost all areas) Based in NRW (Germany) Maintainer of pulp_ansible, pulp_gem, pulp-glue, pulp-cli and squeezer mdellweg in some places, x9c4 in others Pulp has a lot of stakeholders.

General Problem Statements Resource manager is a problem. It's a bottleneck. Every task goes through the resource manager. When tasks die, inconsistent state rq vs Pulp Pulp is inefficient. It's always FIFO when that may not be optimal. Work has to wait if there's a reservation ahead of it waiting for another resource